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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICEQ FRANCIS CONST BARKER, OF DUBLIN, IBELAND.

CHROMATIC=PRINTING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,*126, dated November 22, 1887. Application filed April 21, 1686. Serial No. 199,(314. (No model.) Patented in England May 12, EES, No. 5,802.

To all whom it may conccw:

Be it known that I, FRANCIS CONST BARKER, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Dublin,Ireland, British Isles, envelopemanufacturer, have nvented certain new and useful Improvements in ChromatiePrinting Machines, (for which I have received Letters Patent in England, No. 5,802, dated May 12, %8850 of which the following is a specificalon.

This invention has for its object an improvement on the Magician printing-machine, patented by E. Hely in the United States,No. l8l,073, dated August 15, 1876, which improvement is applicable also to other small hand or treadle platen printing-machines used for printing envelopes, cards, tags, labels,and the like, also to those driven by steam, gas, or other power; and it consists in arrangements by which two or more colors can be printed on the one machine. It is best described by aid of the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a suggestive Outline side View of the patent Magician machine with the present improvements attached; Fig. 2, a plan of same, showing the table at rest and printing in two colors; Fig. 3, a plan of rotating table for printing in three colors; Fig. 4, a plan of an oseillating table for printing in two colors. In all these views like letters relate to like parts. Figs. 5 and 6 are two views of a Magician machine with the improvements applied.

The machine itself is preeisely similar to those used for many years by the firm of Mes sieurs Edward. Hely 85 Company, envelopemanufacturers, Denmark street, Dublin, of which I am the sole proprietor, except that, first, the rollers A are longer and divided into two or three lengths by deep nicks, a; second, the inking-troughs T' are divided by partitions f opposite to and in correspondence with the nicks a of the rollers A, and are supplied with two or three, as the case may be, different-colored inks, one color for each division; third, in place of one die or stamp, two or three are used, as the case may be, so placed as to register correctly, one with another, on the movement of the table, and so placed as to be only inked by their respective colors.

The dies are marked B in the drawings,and

the eylinder C, to which the dies are attached, is larger, to correspond with the increased length of the rollers; or, in place of one ma chine divided in this way, two machines on the same shaft and worked by the same treadle can be used.

The improvements in the table are as fol lows: In place of or fitted upon the fixed table P, upon which the pile of blanks is placed in a Magieiau machine, is a movable table, D, having guides E. (Shown iu Figs. 1, 2, 5,and 6.) This table is controlled by spring or other steps, F, or fences G, so as to stop always at the point required for exact registration. here there are only two colors required, a horizontally-reciprocating table with rectilinear or with radial motion, as set forth in Fig. 4, can be used, with terminal stops or fences G; but when three or morereolors are required, and therefore three or more stations, a rotary table, Figs. 2 and 3, and counterweighted drop or spring steps-such as F-or their equivalents, can be employed. A separate die, B, and inking-rollers are used for each color; or if one long roller be used it is cut at intervals to separate the colors, as already described.

If two colors are to be printed, the dies B B are placed side by side, but a little distance apart, on the stamping-cylinder, as shown in Figs.2 and 4,and synmetrieally with the center of rotaton of table D, hereinafter described. The rollers are arrauged in two complete sets, or one complete set cut away in the center, so that one set or side shall supply one color to one of the dies and the other set shall supply another color to another die. If there be three colors required.the rollers are divided in three, one short center set and two side sets, as set forth in Fig. 3. The dies are arranged two dies, as before, but much farther apart, and the third between them, but all three the same dis tance fron the center of rotation, and arranged synmetrieally. On the disk D two or three piles of blanks, L L, are arranged in the same manner that one set is used in the ordinary Magiciam but at equal distances from the center of rotation, and arrangedsymmetrically with the center J. The spring-stop F and nicks K are arranged so as to cause the table to stop at two or three points in its rotation, corresponding to the two or the three piles of IOO 2 &73,426

blanks. These piles, to start with, are of exactly even height. The three 'dies are made to exactly register.

It will be obvious that instead of the table rotating or reciprocating, -the machine can slide on the table; but the former arrangement is preferable. In the above, by the words a movable table is meant a plate moving on a fixed table, or on a pivot, J, or in guides. To assist in getting an exact registration the pivot on which the table turns may be arranged to be itselfadjustable by placing it on a disk-link, H, Fig., 4, or a plate or slide itself pivoted to the fixed table at I, but capable of being clamped in any position, so that the center of 'rotation of the movable table shall be easily clamped fast after adjustment.

Referring first to Figs. 2 and 3, the mode of action is as follows: The table is' moved by hand or by gearing, if desired, so that for every stroke of the cylinder it shall revolve intermittently one hundred and eighty degrees in the case of two colors and ninety degrees in case of three colors for each descent of the cylinder. After each stamp, after the first one or two, and in the case of the three-color machine whenever a pile comes opposite the vacant quarter, a blank fully printed with the two or three colors, as the case maybe, is withdrawn. The 'spring-stop or its equivalent is arranged to form a considerable resistance to the disk traversing past it, so thatit shall stop the disk exactly at the right pointthrough the stop entering the nick, and yet the curved or V shape of the stop allows it, when a little extra pressure is applied in turning the disk, to leave the nick, and allow the disk to pass round till the next nick comes opposite the stop, when the latter falls onto it and stops the table again.

The mode of Operating the parts shown in Fig. 4 differs from those in Figs. 2 and 3solely in that the table is oscillating instead of ro'- tary, and that a single pile of blanks, L, is used, and is passed alternately under each stamp B, the table oscillating each time against the fences or stops G. This plan is not as V good as the former, as there is astrain first on one side of the cylinder and then on the other as each blank is used, and two strokes and two movements of the table are required for each Withdrawal of a blank, instead of one only, as required with the rotary table, and this plan is only shown and a table mentioned sliding in guides instead of on a pivot to prevent others claiming it as theirs.

Instead of the machine being formed with two or more dies placed on the one cylinder, it may have two or more heads, each carrying a cylinder with single die, operated, preferably,simultaneously,and the table made to slide to and fro or continuously in a circular path, the envelope-blanks being brought successively under each cylinder from which they are to be printed.

I claim as my invention- 1. In a chromatic-printing press, the combination,with the reciprocating dies arranged to print two or more colors at once, of a movable table or support forthe blanks to be printed, arranged, substantially as shown, to feed the blanks successively to each die.

2. In a chromatic-printing press, the combination, with the verticallyreciprocating dies arranged to print two or more colors at once, of a table' or support for the blanks to be printed, movable in a plane at right angles to the movement of the die or dies.

3. In a chromaticprinting press, the combination, with the vertically reciprocating dies arranged to print two or more colors at once, of a rotating disk or table for the blanks to be printed, and means, substantially such' as described, for imparting motion to the dies and table.

4. In a chromatic-printing press, the combination, with the vertieally reciprocating dies arranged to print two or more colors at once, of an intermittently-rotating disk or table for the blanks to be printed, all substantially as described.

5. In combination with a machine having reciprocating dies printing two or more colors at once, a moving table or support Carry ing the paper blanks, and stops so arranged in relative position with the dies that the blanks shall exactly register successively with each die or separately-colored portion ot' a die, substantially as described.

6. In combination with the reciprocating dies B, each printing a separate color, a movable table, D, guides E, applied to said table for holding the blanks in proper position, and arresting devices, arranged substantially as shown, to cause the same area of the blankto,

^ stop successively under each die and thereby distance thereon, and spring-stops F, arranged,

substantially as shown, to engage and stop the table D at such points as shall cause each different-colored area to register successivelyon each blank.

IOO i 8. In combination with a series of recipro cating dies, B, each supplying a differentlycolored imprinta table, D, having a controlled motion, and stops so arranged that a given area on said table shall stop successively 4 under and coincide with each die.

9. In combination with the reciprocating.

said blanks on that line, substantially as decorresponding blanks or piles of blanks, subscribed. stantially as described, and set forth in Figs.

11. The combinaton of the f'ame P, rotat- 2 and 3. ing table D, having two or more solitary In testimony whereofIhave signed myname 5 blanks or ples of blanks, L, ranged synto this specifieationin the presence of twosub- I 5 netrically at equal dstances from the center scribing witnesses.

and at equal angles with each other,with two FRANCIS CONST BARKER. or more reciprocating dies, B, also placed symitnessesz metrically and at similar distances and angles ROBERT SPROULE,`

xo from the rotating center of the table as the JAMES KELLY. 

